George Santayana

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. ↗

— George Santayana

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Depression is rage spread thin. ↗

— George Santayana

#rage #spread #thin

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ↗

— George Santayana

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ↗

— George Santayana

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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ↗

— George Santayana

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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. ↗

— George Santayana

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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

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The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. ↗

— George Santayana

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America is a young country with an old mentality. ↗

— George Santayana

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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ↗

— George Santayana

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